What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion

It is almost impossible to find those who admire us entirely lacking in taste.

Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us.

To endeavor to move by the same discourse hearers who differ in age, sex, position and education is to attempt to open all locks with the same key.

An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.

That experience which does not make us better makes us worse.

Religion is the hospital of the souls that the world has wounded.